Ernst Billgren

Ernst Billgren (born 18 November 1957) is a Swedish artist and writer.

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Billgren was born in Stockholm and that is where he is currently based. He attended the Valand School of Fine Arts where he graduated in 1987.

His daughter Elsa Billgren is a television presenter.^[1] He was previously married to artist Helene Billgren.

Carl Johan De Geer and Ernst Billgren at the exhibition "100 Fantastic Paintings" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 2015.
Meeting place (1995) sculpture group located outside the emergency at Sahlgrenska Hospital.
Animals are a recurring theme in Billgren's art, including mallards.
Diana (2009), sculpture group in Malmö.
Church, (2000) in Umeå.
Protector (1995) in Solna.

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Beskyddare (1995), sculpture in bronze and mosaic, in front of the town hall of Solna
Kyrka (2000, erected 2009), sculpture in bronze, Skeppsbron, Stockholm
Fyra årstider (2009), fyra alternerande uppförstorade målningar, shopping centre Nacka Forum, Nacka
Diana (2009), sculpture in bronze, Slottsgatan, Malmö
Sångfågeln (Melodifestivalskulptur)^[2]

Kommittén (novel, 2003)
Vad är konst? (2008)
Prinsen på Lindholmen (2009)
Vad är konst II? (2011)
heter Vägen – en antologi om att göra bra konst, (in collaboration with Jan Åman), published in 1995 by Bonnier Alba.

[1]
"Ernst Billgrens bröllopssnack". Expressen. 2012-08-16. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
[2]
"Melodifestivalen har gjort strålande comeback - SVT 50 år | SVT.se". Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2012.

Official website
Ernst Billgren; Lars Bohman Gallery

Ernst Billgren (born 18 November 1957) is a Swedish artist and writer.

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (November 2014)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Swedish. (July 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
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Billgren was born in Stockholm and that is where he is currently based. He attended the Valand School of Fine Arts where he graduated in 1987.

His daughter Elsa Billgren is a television presenter.^[1] He was previously married to artist Helene Billgren.

Carl Johan De Geer and Ernst Billgren at the exhibition "100 Fantastic Paintings" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 2015.
Meeting place (1995) sculpture group located outside the emergency at Sahlgrenska Hospital.
Animals are a recurring theme in Billgren's art, including mallards.
Diana (2009), sculpture group in Malmö.
Church, (2000) in Umeå.
Protector (1995) in Solna.

This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Swedish text in need of translation. (July 2014)

Beskyddare (1995), sculpture in bronze and mosaic, in front of the town hall of Solna
Kyrka (2000, erected 2009), sculpture in bronze, Skeppsbron, Stockholm
Fyra årstider (2009), fyra alternerande uppförstorade målningar, shopping centre Nacka Forum, Nacka
Diana (2009), sculpture in bronze, Slottsgatan, Malmö
Sångfågeln (Melodifestivalskulptur)^[2]

Kommittén (novel, 2003)
Vad är konst? (2008)
Prinsen på Lindholmen (2009)
Vad är konst II? (2011)
heter Vägen – en antologi om att göra bra konst, (in collaboration with Jan Åman), published in 1995 by Bonnier Alba.

[1]
"Ernst Billgrens bröllopssnack". Expressen. 2012-08-16. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
[2]
"Melodifestivalen har gjort strålande comeback - SVT 50 år | SVT.se". Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved March 10, 2012.

Official website
Ernst Billgren; Lars Bohman Gallery

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